14 April 2025
Webinar: “Unlocking Farmer-Preferred Multipurpose Forage Mixtures: A Tricot Approach in Ethiopia”, 29 April
Join us for our seventh webinar where researcher Kalkidan Ayele Mulatu will join us to discuss “Unlocking Farmer-Preferred Multipurpose Forage Mixtures: A Tricot Approach in Ethiopia”.
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31 March 2025
Webinar: “Phenomenological Exploration of Participation in Citizen Science and Food Systems Leadership”, 3 April
Join us for our sixth webinar where Bolanle Adebayo, Graduate Research Fellow and PhD candidate at Virginia Tech, will join us to discuss “Phenomenological Exploration of Participation in Citizen Science and Food Systems Leadership”.
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18 March 2025
Webinar: “On-farm tricot estimation of newly bred cassava clones in different agro-ecologies in DR Congo”, 20 March
Join us for our fifth webinar, where plant breeder and researcher Dr Mouritala Sikirou will give a talk about “On-farm tricot estimation of newly bred cassava clones in different agro-ecologies in DR Congo”.
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03 March 2025
Webinar: “ClimMob Updates: Enhancing usability, organisation and collaboration”, 4 March
Join us for our fourth webinar, where forestry engineer and specialist in geospatial analysis Marilyn Manrow will give a talk on “ClimMob Updates: Enhancing usability, organisation and collaboration”.
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12 February 2025
Webinar: “Participatory crop evaluation: Tricot trials on cassava and sweet potato in Nigeria”, 20 February
Join us for the third webinar in our series where Dr Tessy Madu will give a presentation on “Participatory crop evaluation: Tricot trials on cassava and sweet potato in Nigeria”.
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11 February 2025
Amplifying tricot farmers voices and stories: Reflections from participatory video techniques in Nigeria
Originally posted on IITA. Participatory research is not new, but is becoming more inclusive and collaborative, with the introduction of participatory video techniques, a method that has shown to elevate the voices of farmers, enabling two-way communication between researchers, farmers, and other rural community members. The IITA Roots, Tubers, and Banana gender team was trained in this method in […]
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31 January 2025
Webinar: “Engaging rural youth in data-driven plant breeding”, 4 February
Join the second webinar in our series where Violet Lasdun will be giving a presentation on “Engaging rural youth in data-driven plant breeding”.
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17 January 2025
Webinar series highlighting projects by 1000FARMS partners starting 21 January
A webinar series highlighting projects by 1000FARMS partners will start 21 January, with the first by Gospel Edughaen, on “Social dynamics associated with implementing mother-baby and tricot participatory trials on selected cassava varieties in Nigeria”.
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25 November 2024
Changing perspectives: Putting Participatory Video into practice in Rwanda
Originally published on the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. Participatory video is a technique that puts cameras in the hands of farmers. Researchers Melissa Bonilla, Maria Delfine, Charles Mwizerwa, Rhys Manners and Anna Muller share how this approach can provide insights for more inclusive agriculture. By: Melissa Bonilla, Maria Delfine, Charles Mwizerwa, Rhys Manners […]
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13 November 2024
IITA and NRCRI execute maiden monitoring and inspection of tricot on-farm cassava trials with the National Variety Release Committee in Nigeria
Originally published on IITA. We have prepared a two-part blog explaining the “tricot” method and detailing the approach for on-farm testing for variety release (Part 1) and featuring the monitoring and inspection part with partners (Part 2). Part 2 details the initial monitoring and inspection of tricot trials in collaboration with the National Varieties Release […]
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